Diseases

Serum Sickness

Immune complex disease caused by the administration of foreign serum or serum proteins and characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, and urticaria. When they are complexed to protein carriers, some drugs can also cause serum sickness when they act as haptens inducing antibody responses.

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Abstract

Immune complex disease caused by the administration of foreign serum or serum proteins and characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, and urticaria. When they are complexed to protein carriers, some drugs can also cause serum sickness when they act as haptens inducing antibody responses.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Serum Sicknesses
  • Sickness, Serum
  • Sicknesses, Serum

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35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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  1. C17.800w.174w.600w.800w
  2. C25.100w.468w.380w.800w

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QW 608

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Serum Sickness. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012713. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012713
  2. Serum Sickness. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum_sickness
  3. Serum Sickness. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33121